DAVID AUSTIN JAYNE

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 545
Kanawha

DAVID AUSTIN JAYNE was born March 4, 1878, in Eaton
Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, son of David
and Hannah (Kisbaugh) Jayne. He attended county school.
spent the early part of his life on the farm, and graduated
from the commercial department of Keystone Academy.
Factoryville, Pennsylvania, in June 1898, and from the
East Stroudsburg State Normal School in June, 1901. He
taught country school and commercial schools at Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania, Elyria, Ohio, and Charleston, West
Virginia.

Mr. Jayne began the practice of public accounting in
1905, and was commissioned as a certified public accountant
by the State of West Virginia in 1911. He is a member of
the American Institute of Accountants, American Society
of Certified Public Accountants and Association of Certified
Public Accountants of West Virginia.

He married Anna Evelyn Carey, of Wyoming County,
Pennsylvania, in 1905, who died soon after their marriage.
In 1907 he married Cecelia MacCutcheon, of Erie, Pennsyl-
vania. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Shriner and
Elk.

Mr. Jane [sic] was appointed on the State Board for the Ex-
amination of Public Accountants by Gov. H. D. Hatfield,
and re-appointed in 1922 by Gov. Ephriam F. Morgan.

Submitted by:  vfcrook@trellis.net (Valerie F. Crook) 

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